Tag Archives: Showgirls

To put it mildly, Showgirls is a movie with a history. Due to its salacious content, Paul Verhoven’s big-budget paean to boobs and backstage betrayal was notorious even before it hit theaters bearing an NC-17 rating back in 1995. And after it was released to bad reviews and worse box office, well let’s just say [...]

It could be said that actress Rena Riffel was born to be in showbiz. Rena started appearing in commercials as an infant and soon graduated to the stage. Before long, she was modeling and appearing in films. Her first major role was as Penny/Hope in Paul Verhoeven’s notorious Showgirls. Since then, she’s done a little [...]

I really don’t know where to start with Dark Reel (2007), directed by Josh Eisenstadt and written by Eisenstadt and Aaron Pope. I’d like to think that this is one of those movies that looked good on the page, but got lost in translation to the screen. But that would ignore the fact that although [...]